I'm glad you ask, Henry...
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HAVOCA Sponsors....
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HAVOCA is a self funded organisation and although the information you find here is free,
please spare what you can and donate to our association so that we can maintain our website
and continue to promote HAVOCA, making it more accessable to a wider audience. Thank you.
What we need money for:-
Maintain this website with its breadth of helpful information and links to many other sites (which are constantly changing)
Add new articles and current information, and maintain our new pages
Provide links to discussion forums, online peer support groups, and chat forums, serving as a "lifeline" of support to many survivors and their families
Provide support via email to survivors/victims and their support networks
Assist survivors and their families with helpful contacts and information
Aid professionals and victim advocates through fostering an environment where they can confer with one another, and aggressively work to grow this online community
Provide resources for professionals, churches, and other institutions
Help increase the visibility of other survivor groups to assist them in their efforts to help survivors and/or professionals
Educate the general public about child abuse, and be an advocate for social change in addressing these issues
Provide information services to the media
Legislative child abuse work
Coordinate volunteer efforts
Monitor relevant news stories and send them out as Media Updates to subscribers
Publish our quarterly eNewsletter
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Why we need your support:-
3 days ago I wanted to kill myself
2 days ago a friend gave me their old computer
1 day ago I found quiet room
today I am invincible/I am lovable
right now I'd like to thank you
tomorrow I'll be back
I have been to many websites dealing with abuse and I have found this one to be the most encouraging. The advice is very well presented and even with a bit of humor now and then. Laughter is the best medicine, and even on the worst day if something can make you laugh a little, it helps. Keep up the good work.
I am an adult survivor of long term child abuse. I think it's wonderful you have a safe place where others can share their experiences, fears, hopes and dreams without recrimination.
Having discovered your site today, I have read it from page to page, and have been given hope at last, that at the age of almost 44, all these terrible feelings, self-loathing, shame etc etc are not my fault, but the fault of what happened to me. I have always been 'blamed' for being 'me', but 'they' made me who I am, how I am. 44 years of fear and suffering. I hope I can finally get some help.
new 2 pc and just read books by David Pelzer and I am in process of reading HELP YOURSELF at the moment. Excellent website long long overdue
I believe my husband is a survivor of childhood child abuse. He has never told me, but the symptoms, etc. are textbook case. I would like to confront him, so hopefully someday he can find a path to healing, but am unsure if that's the right thing to do or how to go about it. I feel it's really starting to take a physical toll on his health. Headaches, stomach problems, sleep problems, he can't relax, etc. Yours is the best website and source of information I have found by far. I would like to seek more advice in the future. Thank you, it feels like I finally found someone who understands!
Thank you so much for this site. This is just what I needed.
I am extremely impressed with your on-line survey. Looking at the breakdown of responses helped me to put my issues into context, something which had never been done before by any professional. It clearly illustrated why I am having such difficulties finding assistance in dealing with my type specific type of abuse. Brilliant idea. Great work.
Fact 1: When you support HAVOCA, you are helping people all over the world at a time when they need help the most.
Fact: 2: Without your support, we cannot exist.
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